Mobile commerce application development: Implementing location-aware information services

Abstract

Mobile setting's particularities and limitations are serious. In fact, enhancing the mobile browsing user experience is feasible only if perceptual and contextual considerations are employed. A case study of a context-aware location-based application is designed and implemented in this paper. It is capable to identify and to depict on the map user's current location, to search and detect routes (and to mark on the map the user's preferred route while he is in move), to display various user personal points of interest/attractions, along user's current route, and to edit user's personal selections regarding attractions. It is a customized application, based on Microsoft MapPoint Web Service technology, since each user receives information which is strictly related to his identity. Users are certainly may benefit from such personalized services and have access only to information of specific context without being annoyed with needless operations. © 2009 IEEE.